Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Antya 5.127
The Lord’s Bliss and Our Conditioned Suffering
“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and samvit. The conditioned soul, however, is always covered by ignorance and embarrassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he is a treasure house of all kinds of tribulations.’”
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme controller and is always full of transcendental bliss.
- The Lord is accompanied by the potencies known as hlādinī and samvit.
- The conditioned soul is covered by ignorance and troubled by the threefold miseries of life. The verse describes him as a treasure house of tribulations.
Try this today
Read the translation slowly, noting the contrast between the Lord’s bliss and the conditioned soul’s tribulations.
Ask yourself
How does this verse challenge the idea that the Lord shares our conditioned suffering?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.